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  Brush up your English with those funny  aphorisms 

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There are things we know we know. There are known unknowns ... things we know we don't know.

But there are also unknown unknowns - things we don't know we don't know. (Donald Rumsfeld)

 If you can´t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.

 I want to be what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

 If you´re not confused, you´re misinformed.

 Dying isn´t so bad - but you feel bloody awful the next day.

 What is apathy? I don´t know and I don´t care

 I don´t like chaos but chaos likes me.

 One who knows that he knows nothing knows more then one who doesnt know that he knows nothing.

 Everything that´s any fun is either immoral, illegal or fattening

 The only problem with doing nothing is that you never know when you are finished.

 I am on a Seafood-Diet: everything i see i eat.

 I guess vegetarians do not love animals, I guess vegetarians hate plants.

 Reality is for people who can´t cope with drugs.

 Neurotics build castles in the sky, psychotics live in them, psychiatrists collect the rent and psychopaths smash the windows.

 An optimist believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.

 The only problem with egoists is that they are more interested in themselves than in me.

 Once the toothpaste is out of tube, it´s hard to get it back in.

 There is a lot of pleasure in having nothing to do, the fun is havings lots to do and not doing it.

 Maybe I´m lucky to be going slowly because I may be going in the wrong direction.

 A cynic is one who knows a price of everything and value of nothing.

 Always forgive your enemies but never forget their names.

 I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

 Money is the root of evil and man needs roots.

 One nice thing about egoists is that they don´talk about other people.

 The only normal people are the ones you don´t know very well.

 Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

 In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

 Marriage is the triumph if imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

 Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn´t mean he knows what it is.

 Life is a rollercoaster. Try to eat a light lunch.

 Living on Earth may be expensive but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun.

 Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.

 There are two types of people : those who divide people into two types and those who don´t.

 All my life I wanted to be someone, I guess I should have been more specific.

 Money can´t buy happiness - but somehow it is more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than in a Lada.

 Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.

 Some days you´re the dog, some days you´re the hydrant.

 There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened.

 When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

 You can´t have everything. Where would you put it?
 
 It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

 Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

 Rivers know this: there´s no hurry. We shall get there some day.

 Chaos always wins because it´s better organized.

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